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Saturday, June 27, 2015

This is a dam. It is 400 feet tall and 2,200 feet wide. It is an earthen dam made of dirt and rock. You can find it just past the East End of East Liverpool. It is impressive to behold. What is behind it may be deadly.
Behind it was Little Blue Run Lake. It was a man made lake built in 1975. When I was little I remember my parents telling me it was once a town called Little Blue and the rubble was all that remained of it. Later, in 2003, my dad took us on a ride to show us this beautiful blue lake. What was unusual was that all the trees in it and around it were dead.It was the largest coal ash impound in the United States. What is a Coal Ash Impound? Coal ash is the residual combustion in power plants that are captured by pollution control technology, such as scrubbers. It consists of fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, flue gas desulfurization gypsum, and other byproducts and contains low concentrations of arsenic, selenium, lead, and mercury. After collection at a power plant, coal ash is often impounded in a surface storage pond or in a landfill. What are scrubbers? Scrubbers are an apparatus that cleans the gases passing through the smokestack of a coal-burning power plant. Due to Clean Air Act regulations, most scrubbers in U.S. coal plants are used to remove sulfur emissions from coal and lessen the formation of acid rain. There was (and perhaps still is) 20 billion gallons of coal ash and smokestack scrubber waste in the lake.

This is an image from NASA of the area and the lake. It washuge. It is also gone now. Mostly.

I am going to go out there and get some pics of the area. From what I understand, the lake is gone now. There was a threat that the dam might break, which would have affected over 50,000 people in the area. Maybe that is why it is gone. Two lawsuits were filed against First Energy, the owner/maker of the lake, and they have promised to monitor the sight and clean it up. Time will tell.

Monday, June 22, 2015

We had a good time at the 2015 East Liverpool Pottery Festival.
New this year with us was Cindy Burkett Willoughby, our crew psychic. She did readings for people and did two group readings during the event. As always, she was impressive. An illness with a family member too her away early, but we loved having her Thursday and Friday/

It was also Brian Dickson's first festival. He did an awesome job. Brian was only with us Thursday and Friday as well because he had to work Saturday.

What would the Pottery Festival be without a storm? Of course we had on which nearly blew our canopy away. We all ended up soaked, but had a great adventure holding down the fort!

Our scavenger hunt turned out great, despite the small turnout for the festival and the rain. The winners were the Spirit Spectors! They scored over 5600 points. First Prize was four tickets to the Hilltop Drive In and dinner at KFC. Congrats Spirit Spectors!

We also had an opportunity to investigate some areas around the festival that turned out to be quite haunted. Having
Cindy with us proved to be of great help. As she stood in front of the former Central School, she felt the presence of many souls, perhaps even a vortex. I was intrigued! We also investigated the former site of Smith Auto Parts Store. We had some good results there, too. We will be going back in the future to do some more work there.

About Kimberly Frazier Mitchell

I have been researching and ghost hunting since February of 2003. I have also explored a good portion of the Columbiana County area. I have an all new crew and we are working to have our own building as a head quarters and a place to do paranormal investigations. We currently have the Old East End Jr High, and it is proving to be very actively haunted. Ghost hunting has become a huge part of my life and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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